Posts Tagged: Web Design
Firebug is the bestest tool evar!!!
I’d installed Firebug for JavaScript debugging, as part of an online Ajax course I’m taking. At first that’s all I used it for, and only for that course’s homework, because I don’t use any JavaScript for my site.
But as I wrap up the new design for my site, I’ve been using the HTML/CSS inspector function more and more. I’m easily able to see all the nested elements, their precise layout (with margins and paddings), as well as the styles applied to them.
The Search For…
So… I’ve got two options here, neither of them totally satisfactory.
1) Use the built-in Wordpress search function. It’s pretty basic, though you can install plugins to make it search pages as well as posts, and nicely highlight search terms on the results page. Pro: it only searches post/page content, and title (this annoyed me before). Which in fact is a bit of a con, because now I may want to search the comments.
What don’t I need?
I’m still working on the new site design. It’s slow. And frustrating. I want to do more than just giving my site a face lift, but honestly it’s damn hard to be creative when I’m still learning the tools. So I experiment. And I play. I add stuff. And I subtract.
Subtracting’s important. There comes a point when pretty styles and frills are just too distracting, too showing, too hard to maintain, too much.
Monsieur Smartypants
Okay, The Tick vs. Reno, Nevada is far from my favourite from Season Two (that would be Grandpa Wore Tights, with its brilliantly hilarious parody of Golden Age heroes), but the title seemed appropriate. After a hiatus of a few weeks I’m back at work on my site redesign, and making good progress. I’ve got a pretty good structure for the blog and assorted pages, though there are still some open questions and many tweaks to be done. And, I’ve started looking at customising my photo galleries. Yes, it can be done.
The Myspace Blues
I haven’t been working much on my site lately. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me to set up a Myspace page for his Blues band. He doesn’t know HTML but I do, and I was happy to help, but damn that was a painful experience.
